Deputy prime minister and interim minister of agriculture, Tanczos Barna, announced on Wednesday, June 10, that he initiated a process to remove the brown bear from the list of protected species and move it to another annex. The process takes place at the level of the European Commission. Barna, a former environment minister and longtime crusader for the hunting of bears, motivated the initiative by pointing to the growing number of brown bears in Romania and the dangers they pose.